Receiver-holder for telephones.



No. 862,909. PATENTED AUG.13, 1907.

' E. B. HBLMAN.

RECEIVER HOLDER FOR TELEPHONBS. APPLICATION FILED MAY 2. 1907.

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EZRA B. HELMAN, OF INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA.

- RECEIVER-HOLDER FOR TELEPHONES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 13, 1907.

Application filed May 2, 1907. Serial No. 371,379.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EZRA B. HELMAN, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Indiana, in the county of Indiana and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inReceiver-Holders for Telephones, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to a receiver holder for telephones, and theinvention has for its primary object to provide a simple and inexpensiveholder for supporting a receiver in a position convenient to a personusing a telephone, whereby the persons hands will be free for performingsome other duty than holding the telephone receiver. To this end, I havedevised a bracket adapted to be secured to a telephone or to a walladjacent to a telephone, the bracket being provided with a plurality ofsupports for holding a pivoted arm in any desired elevation. Connectingwith the pivoted arm are a plurality of hinged arms carrying thereceiver holder, which comprises resilient clips adapted to embrace thereceiver of a telephone.

The detail construction entering into my invention will be hereinaftermore fully described and then speciiically pointed out in the claims,and reference will now be had to the drawing forming part of thisspecification wherein I have illustrated a perspective view of myreceiver holder.

The telephone receiver holder consists of a triangularshaped bracket 1adapted to be secured to a telephone or suitable support by screws 2 orsimilar fastening means. The vertical arm 3 of the bracket is providedwith a plurality of equally spaced hooks or supports 4, for an arm 5pivotally connected to the bracket 1, as at 6.

Hinged to the arm 5, as at 7, are a plurality of folding arms 8, saidarms being hinged together, as at 9. One of the arms is provided with ahinged extension 10 carrying resilient clips 11 adapted to embrace thereceiver of a telephone, said hinged extension 10 constituting a supportfor the receiver.

The pivoted arm 5 can be adjusted to hold the folding arms at anydesired elevation, while said arms can be manipulated to correctlyposition a receiver placed in the resilient clips 11.

The receiver holder is preferably constructed of light and durable metaland finished to harmonize with the metallic fittings of a telephone.

Such changes in the details of construction, as are permissible by theappended claims, in order to adapt my holder to various types oftelephones, may be resorted to' without departing from the spirit andscope of the invention.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:-

1. A telephone receiver holder consisting of a bracket, an adjustablearm pivoted thereto, folding arms hinged to said pivoted arm, anextension hinged to said folding arms, resilient clips carried by saidextension, and a plurality of forwardly projecting supports carried bysaid bracket to" said adjustable arm.

2. A telephone receiver comprising a vertically-disposed bracket, anadjustable arm pivoted to one side of said bracket and extending pastthe opposite side thereof, a plurality of forwardly projectingsupportscarried by the said opposite side of the bracket for the said adjustablearm, folding arms hinged to said adjustable arm, an extension having oneend hinged to the outer arm of said folding arm. and resilient clipscarried by said extension.

In testimony whereof I afljx my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

EZRA B. HELMAN.

Witnesses .TNo. C. WELLs, W. F. ELKIN.

